25/07/2025 – 19/09/2025

• On 18 September 2025 InfoMigrants reported that two migrants were discovered dead in the Channel coast region. In a camp close to Loon Plage, one migrant was found dead after an apparent suicide according to French police. The other migrant, a 22-year old from South Sudan, had reportedly drowned after falling into a canal close to Calais. According to coordinator for the association Utopia 56 at Grande-Synthe, Marie Chapelle, migrants had been turning to the canal for water due to the absence of running water facilities in the area 

• On August 6 2025, the treaty between Paris and London on the exchange of asylum seekers came into force. For every individual who arrives in the United Kingdom by “small boat” and is returned to France, the United Kingdom will receive an asylum seeker from France. This “one-for-one” mechanism, which does not specify the number of people involved, pushes the fundamental rights of refugees into a blind spot.  

• Between July 29 and 30 2025, 94 people attempting to cross the English Channel were rescued during three separate operations.